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...Almost all foods need makeup. To give that rich look to cream, add a pinch of the deep yellow spice turmeric. A rubbed-on mixture of lipstick and wax improves oranges; grapes should be lightly dusted with talcum powder; paint steaks and roasts with undiluted grape juice. Butter, ironically, looks best when fortified with a little of the coloring usually sold with oleomargarine...
...more than a quarter-century, U.S. radio stations have signed on & off the air with such tiresome technical details (station's frequency, place of business, etc.) as are required by federal law. This week, Manhattan's station WNBC decided to spice up the formalities with "wakeup copy" in the morning and "go-to-bed copy" at night. To do the job, enterprising General Manager Ted Cott commissioned such seasoned phrasemakers as Poet Louis Untermeyer, Novelist Fannie Hurst, Editor Norman (Saturday Review of Literature) Cousins and topflight Radio...
Last week, as he celebrated his 50th anniversary as editor of the world's oldest picture magazine, plump, jolly Chef Ingram was performing the neat feat of turning out a tasty and tasteful journalistic meal without spice. "Whatever success we've had," says 73-year-old Captain (World War I) Ingram, "has been due to a policy of romance without sensation...
Dyer-Bennett sang some traditional ballads, "Green sleeves," "Barbara Allen" and "Blow the Candles Out." The last had a tinge of bawdiness since it was written before "the moral gloom of our own period," when a little spice was taken for granted. Although he hinted that a little spice never hurts, Dyer-Bennett declined to sing anything bawdier...
Culinary nomenclature subtly manages to convey certain historic sidelights. Metternich, whose name on any menu stands for paprika, was a firm enemy of Hungarian nationalism but a great lover of Hungary's national spice. The Esterhazy family, gastronomic historians aver, oscillated for centuries between opulence and (relative) frugality: one generation would have to economize by eating things like beefsteak a la Esterhazy (made from a cheaper cut of meat) because their heedless fathers had eaten too many Tournedos a la Metternich...